Improved barrel



` iication, in which i shownin Fig. 2.

PATENTV, OFFICE.

DAlTllIlillli H. `VVAJJERS, OF GRAND RAPIQDS, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVED BARREL.

Specification forming part o f Letters Patent N @97,840, dated December 14, 1869.

` of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and Stateof Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Barrel; and I do hereby .declare that the following is full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this speci .1 Figure 1 isa side elevation of my improved barrel. Fig. 2 is a 'vertical section through one-half of the barrel. showing the manner of connecting the several `parts together. Fig. 3 is a top view of the barrel 'with the cover removed. Fig. 4 shows a portion of the cover in section. Figs show modifications of joints which may be adopted in uniting the sections composing the barrel. i

Similar letters of .reference indicate corre l spending parts inthe several gures.

The object of thisinvent-iou is to produce barrels, or cylindrical packing-boxes, of horizontal sections, bent in-a cylindrical form, and united, by vmeans of hoops and nails, in such manner `as to effect substantial work, with greater facility and less expense than hitherta To enable others skilled in the -art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, AA A rep- A resent three horizontal bands or cylindrical sections, made of thin wooden sheets, and secured in their cylindricalform byl lapping and nailing their edges. These sections rest one upon the other, and are/of equal diameter, so that `when brought together a ilush surface will be presented, exteriorly and interiorly, as For the purpose of securing' the sections together I employ hoops B B, of suil'icient width to lap Well over the joints, and close -these joints, as shown in Fig. 2. I nail the hoops to the sections above andbelow their respective joints, thereby firmly uniting the sections, and forming the cylindrical body of abarrel or box. The top and bottom pieces or heads C C may be secured in their pla'ces in any well-known manner; but I prefer to effect this by the use of rims or hoops B', rabbeted as shown in Figs. 2 and4, the lipsof which hoops will hold'the heads firmly and tightly in place when the hoops 'or rims are nailed to the barrel or box. If `additional se'- curity is required against a parting or separating of the sections A, narrow strips of metal v a may be applied externally or internally to the barrel, in a direction with the longitudinal axis thereof, and their extremities turned over the ends of the barrel, and secured in any suit-- able manner.- j, l

In carrying my invention into effect I do not conne myself to the number of horizontal sections A shown in the drawings, as a greater or lesser number of these sectionsmay-be employed, united by the hoops B. Nor do I confine myself to the use of the ties a, as very substantial work, which will answer a good purpose formany packing-barrels or boxes, canbe produced Without such strips.

I am aware that it is not new to make a box or barrel of a single piece of material, bent in proper form, and hooped to strengthen it, andl I do not, therefore, claim such as my invenl tion. Nor do I confine myself to the precise manner shown of making the joints between the horizontal sections-that is to say, of uniting the edges of the horizontal sections-as this may be done by lapping, rabbetin g, tongue and grooving, as shown. in Figs. 5, or by the flush abutting-joints shown in Fig. 2.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Fatent, isf- As a new article of manufacture, abarrel or box, composed of horizontal sections A,united by means of hoops B, as described.

' DANIEL H. WATERS. i Witnesses:

GEO. G. BRrGGs, J. W. PEIRCE. 

